Resources

International organization

Mobile industry

GSMA Development FundsThe department of mobile industry association focusing on the use of mobile in Development

Network Operators

Handset Manufacturers

Browser makers

Opera makes browsers for mobile devices, including Opera mini, a browser designed for very simple phones. It is a binary of about 100kb, working with a free proxy, and provides data compression, to make it functional and useful in many contexts where a ful web browser used to be too expensive to run.

NGO sector

Hello AfricaHello Africa is the title of an documentary that sets out to illustrate the ongoing mobile phone craze in Africa, particularly in Zanzibar.

Academic Team

Change Group Change is a group of faculty and students at the University of Washington are working together on projects to fight inequity and poverty across the globe.

OpenROSA OpenROSA (part of Change) is a consortium formed to create open source, standards-based tools for mobile data collection, aggregation, analysis, and reporting. The OpenROSA community includes various orginizations and researchers all united behind a common goal around mobile data collection systems. Many of the consortium members are working on solutions for developing regions, including disease surveillance, household surveys, collection of longitudinal data for electronic medical records, guiding health workers through medical protocols at the point of care, and supporting community health workers. (From Website Description)

Bridging the Global Digital DivideA network of four academic projects with a common objective to explore ways to give access to those currently excluded from world telecommunications and digital networksAugust 2008-still running

Tapan S. Parikhresearch focuses on the use of computing to support sustainable economic development across the World

Support and Development Teams

Development Seed The common mission of the team is to build creative communications solutions for organizations doing world-changing work. "Our job is to come into your organization, figure out your communications goals, and then get you there. We devise strategies to unclog your communications channels and build tools to help you easily get your messages out to the right audience."

Public Forum

W3C Mobile Web for Development The World Wide Web Consortium launched this group in May 2008 to explore the topic of using the Web on mobile phones to bridge the Digital Divide and leverage access to ICT for rural population.

EU FP7 project Digital World ForumAn EU FP7 project focusing on the use of ICT to leverage economic development in Africa and Latin AmericaFrom 1st Jan 2008 till 30 June 2009